Example sentences of "come [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The judge described their life together as a story of high achievement and glorious success , which had come through unrelenting hard work , unlimited self-sacrifice and absolute determination . |
2 | We have come through those stupid remarks by responsible people . |
3 | He 's quite happy to come for those two ladies . . |
4 | Labour leader John Smith bluntly told the Commons : ‘ The time has now come for effective international action . ’ |
5 | It has always been difficult to organize hotel workers by the very nature of their industry but the time has now come for those very workers to join the G M B so that collectively we can fight the exploitation of low paid workers . |
6 | Nevertheless , as Primaflora was immoderately aware , he would not have come for these alone , with no heed for the heat of the day . |
7 | Barton was the only one of the three to make it as far as the quarters , but he still had to come through another two heats to overhaul Hardman 's tally of points . |
8 | a matter will be er that we going to fight er , easily er so I mean i , it meant that the er , that er er some more should be brought out so that it er does er adhere to what er these er er government departments er expect as a response rather than er er as this considered issue raising er , we can er facilitate that er quite er easily but er I think er the the main point is what Hugh has said , that er we opposed it because it 's not going to help in my view it 's not going to help er the patients , the patients are not going to come off any better as a result of er , these er er what I would say and I feel and er the , I I I 'd like to know what er the GP 's think about cos GP 's usually erm er , advise their patients if they have to wait a long time from one hospital , they would advise them to go into London and er , if that 's been stopped as been er that 's been stated erm then erm , er the GP 's are not going to feel very happy about their patients er , getting er erm a lesser service . |
9 | The field in which the claims of individual commercialism come into most immediate conflict with reputable notions of social values is that of health … no society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means … |
10 | You remember ‘ Egg and chips twice , ’ the Biblethumper who used to come into that little café with his girlfriend every evening when we were in billets on the South Coast ? |
11 | The chapters in this section of the reader consider various aspects of teaching and learning that have come under increased official scrutiny by central state agencies in recent years , particularly the curriculum of schools , the assessment of pupil performance in school and the quality of teaching itself . |
12 | As government expenditures have grown , the objectives and results of such programmes have come under increased public scrutiny . |
13 | This was the first time a Social Work Department in Scotland had come under such public fire for the same reasons . |
14 | Nevertheless , the fact remains , these are exceptional cases , and it is worth remarking that even in the two cases cited , the freeholders concerned had not come under any previous commitment to a rival candidate . |
15 | SIGNS that the economy might be on the upturn come with another major East Anglian employer back in profit . |
16 | It was the biggest of her sons speaking now , the one who had opened the door , and he said , ‘ She 's a classy piece , Ma , and she 's come with some strange news . |
17 | McDonald 's restaurants in Central and South America ( Argentina , Brazil , Costa Rica , Guatemala , Mexico , Panama and Venezuela ) only use suppliers who document that their beef has come from long established cattle ranches — not rainforest land . |
18 | ‘ But the head and the Hand of Glory come from that poor hag . |
19 | Ahmed had come from that dizzy town to boast that he had seen a bad strange girl leaving Marie Claire 's house and had shouted and thrown stones at her . |
20 | And now , very recently indeed , confirmation has come from that remarkable treasury of early fossils , the Burgess Shalesin the Canadian Rockies . |
21 | initiative has come from Anglo International . |
22 | Then the water vapour which condensed into oceans must have come from early volcanic activity and from the gaseous components of the solid Earth itself . |
23 | The genes in an organism today have come from many different ancestors . |
24 | ‘ The test has shown positive , but as far as we know at the moment it could have come from many different sources . ’ |
25 | Because we had all come from such different backgrounds , and were individuals bound together only by circumstance , I felt it was impossible to criticise their actions as I did n't fully understand their motivations . |
26 | Maybe I can never convince you that I am other than a spirit , for what I have to tell you is this : that I have come from two hundred years in the future to speak to you — to sit here by this window and talk as we talk now ! ’ |
27 | The wastes that go down the drain come from two main sources , the textiles themselves and the residues of chemicals employed in treating them . |
28 | Policy development has come from two main sources . |
29 | Further confirmation that public attitudes towards corporate crime are hardening and becoming more punitive have come from other American studies ( McCleary et al . |
30 | In the northern Weald , some of these men seem to have come from large Kentish estates round Tonbridge rather than from the Sussex coast ; there must have been several centuries of discussion before Wealden boundaries were finally sorted out . |